Knots | 
|  | | | Title: | Knots | | Author: | R.D. Laing | | Publisher: | Vintage | | Type: | Book / Mass Market Paperback | | Publication Date: | 12 April, 1972 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0394717767 / 9780394717760 | | List Price: | $11.00 | | You Save: | $2.20 | | Amazon Price: | $8.80 | |
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A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships.
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• R.d. Laing 10 January, 2007
IT was ok excpet for the book itself. It was printed on cheap paper with a bad font. That would be ok if you had just mentioned it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21TP4U03Z69EN
• Indispensible 09 January, 2007
I have been in a profession 29 years in modern USA encountering hundreds of people and their varying issues, demands, needs, knots. I did not encounter this book in my education, even in psych, sociology or education courses. I picked it up at the school bookstore, and it has ended up about the most frequently re-referenced book in my library since -- for practical reasons. The book, simply, has been indispensible.
Not every situation imaginable, obviously, is outlined here, but the patterns are true and revealing. Laing was a great man, pioneer and rebel in a field brand spanking new that too quickly developed set and shared beliefs. He jumped into the chaos despite his own flaws, well known and well documented, but they do not detract from his contributions and uncanny insights into human relationships and what goes awry with them -- here laid out in poetic scenarios like a collection of butterflies. Laing hated the DSM manual, calling it the verbal equivilent of a straight jacket. In how many cases have I seen this bold and broadly human view confirmed, I cannot say -- many, many. The human psyche is a wildernesss, beautiful and potentially dangerous, full of pitfalls unknown to ourselves. Laing and his pioneer compatriots humanized mental illness and took it out of the closet; they dared to attempt to communicate with those written off and locked up in bare rooms. Laing's writings are also increasingly prophetic of our sad, manically unraveling moment of history. The line between those diagnosed insane (increasingly, too many) and sane is indeterminate and grey, certainly no bright line, and shifts continually. The "family" and "love" are often words sucked of all meaning in our lunatic freeways, life "choices" and "styles," our rush for the $$$ and "self" fulfillment.
This book would help just about anyone -- just remember its exploratory and tentative, the product of close personal & clinical study, not written in stone. Everybody's own knots are as singular as their fingerprints.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A48THA5X4OUAB
• Extreme Caution 04 June, 2008
this book is diabolically brilliant......it will mess with your head and you might never be the same......I love it....and if you dare....go for it......
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1TP2JO6Z0J6OR
• One For The Ages 27 December, 2004
Knots is one of those books that you not only can but need to read and re-read throughout a lifetime. Laing really points out the ways in which we hinder ourselves, our relationships and our lives through these 'knots.'
For those out there who need a book with examples to see Laing's point more clearly, I would recommend 'Sanity, Madness and the family,' where one can see in concrete terms the things Laing points out "only" abstractlt in Knots.
HOwever, do not get me wrong, Knots is one of the best books ever written
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3FNAAUFNOHCQJ
• Review Of Paperback Knots By R D Laing 08 December, 2007
I returned the first two copies (which were to be gifts) because the print was almost totally illegible; a second shipment had the same dreadful print job and I returned them as well.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3LAVD6GYT6NRP
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